{"id":4472,"date":"2009-01-22T10:37:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T15:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=4472"},"modified":"2009-01-22T10:37:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T15:37:43","slug":"slope-sliding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=4472","title":{"rendered":"Slope Sliding"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/Canada\/2009\/01\/21\/8101186-ap.html\">VANCOUVER, British Columbia<\/a> \u2014 Canada\u2019s decision to legalize gay marriage has paved the way for polygamy to be legal as well, a defense lawyer said Wednesday as the two leaders of rival polygamous communities made their first court appearance.<\/p>\n<p>...<\/p>\n<p>But Blackmore\u2019s lawyer, Blair Suffredine, said during a telephone interview that marriage standards in Canada have changed. <\/p>\n<p>\"If (homosexuals) can marry, what is the reason that public policy says one person can\u2019t marry more than one person?\u201d said Suffredine, a former provincial lawmaker. Canada\u2019s Parliament extended full marriage rights to same-sex couples in 2005.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sources tell me that the Canadian Man Box Turtle Love Association (CAMBOTLA) has offered to fund Blackmore's defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER, British Columbia \u2014 Canada\u2019s decision to legalize gay marriage has paved the way for polygamy to be legal as well, a defense lawyer said Wednesday as the two leaders of rival polygamous communities made their first court appearance. ... But Blackmore\u2019s lawyer, Blair Suffredine, said during a telephone interview that marriage standards in Canada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}